what’s the meaning of life the universe and everything?

Question

Not 42

Answer 1

"What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives, most in the context "What is the purpose of life?" Here are some of the many potential answers to this perplexing question:

Survival and temporal success

* ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
* ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
* ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
* ...to compete or co-operate with others
* ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
* ...to die having succeeded in your purpose
* ...to gain and exercise power
* ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
* ...to live
* ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
* ...to protect one's family
* ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
* ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
* ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
* ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

* ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
* ...to expand one's perception of the world
* ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
* ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
* ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
* ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
* ...to understand creation

Ethical

* ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
* ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
* ...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land
* ...to become like God, or God-like
* ...to be rewarded for your deeds
* ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)
* ...to express compassion
* ...to follow the "Golden Rule"
* ...to give and receive love
* ...to live in a way that you don't harm yourself and don't harm your environment
* ...to work for justice and freedom

Religious and spiritual

* ...to be a filter of creation between heaven and hell
* ...to die and become a martyr
* ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
* ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
* ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
* ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
* ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
* ...to serve others, or do good deeds
* ...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment and atonement
* ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
* ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
* ...to disprove the existence of a or all all gods

Other

* ...to achieve self-actualisation
* ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
* ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general
* ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
* ...to have fun
* ...to participate in the inevitable increase in entropy of the universe
* ...to make the conformists' lives miserable (see non-conformism)
* ...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
* ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
* ...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them, or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
* ...to seek and find beauty
* ...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
* ...an answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" is that it is just simply being able to ask the question, "What is the meaning of life?" (see Sri Sri Ravi Shankar below)
* ...a combination of any of the above.

No purpose, and therefore...

* ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
* ...just a series of events
* ...just nature taking its course
* ...the wheel of time keeps on turning
* ...the cycle of life
* ...whatever you see you see, as in "projection makes perception"
* ...there is no purpose or meaning whatsoever (see nihilism)
* ...who cares?

Answer 2

Why not 42? Who's to say that they didn't have a point in that? Let's look at the numerology of this.....4 + 2 = 6. Now, how often does the number 6 come up? Do this, every time you see the number 6, take note of what it is on. Then try to make a connection between these things. It may not lead you to any amazing discoveries on what the universe is about, but you might find out some interesting connections that you hadn't seen before.

Answer 3

My first point is: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with, sense, reasoning , and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei.
My second point is "there is a single light of science, to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." - Isaac Asimov.
My third point is: "Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God." - Cicero.

What i am trying to say is that the answer to your question lies all around you. Use your head and try and discover and understand the world and the universe. In this way you will get your answer.

Euripides once said, “The wisest men follow their own direction.” In other words you have to discover for yourself what the meaning of life is. By "meaning" i assume you mean purpose, where we came from and where we are going. Start with what we know is true, such as maths and "I think therefore i am" and work your way up to the indefinites. In this way, through logical thought you will find your answer.

Answer 4

"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," say Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promply vanishes in a puff of logic.
Gods Rules.
See if it isnt 42, then it must be 42.
There is no logic, there is only the aware and the unaware, and even those are subject to change.
Have a cup of tea and this too shall pass.

Answer 5

The meaning of life, the universe, and everything is to make choices in your life and grow spiritually in the next life. If you make bad choices you will reincarnate lower down the food chain and if you make better choices you will reincarnate higher up the food chain. Additionally, you want to keep lives reincarnating so that means protecting the planet we live on.

Answer 6

The question and the answer are mutually exclusive. Knowledge of one precludes knowledge of the other.If the two ever were to become known at the same time, the universe might collapse and reform into something even more mysterious and bizarre than the one we live in now.

Answer 7

in the meantime, how does God feel about what is going on in the world and in your life? well, the bible teaches that God is a lover of justice (psalm 37:28) so he cares deeplu about what is right and what is wrong. He hates all kinds of injustice. tge Bible says that God felt hurt at his heart wgeb badness filled the workd in times past. (genesus 6:5,6) God has not changed. (malachi 3:6) he still hates to see the suffering that is taking place worldwide. and God hates to see people suffer. He cares for you the Bible says (1peter 5:7)

Answer 8

Love

Answer 9

Purple

Answer 10

After 40 years of contemplating this very question and reading many others opinions on this matter I have come to understand that all emotions, actions and gratification can be found in;

Titties & Beer (Think about it)

Answer 11

It is up to us to give life its meaning . We all ask about the meaning of life . Wouldn't it be better to ask about a life of meaning?